 | Brookes, J. 1828 A catalogue of the anatomical & zoological museum. London, Joshua Brookes, pp. 1-76 |
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| Sales catalogue on 14 July 1828, p.75, lots 16-22 specimens of Didermoceros sumatrensis. |
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| Anderson, J. 1826 Mission to the East coast of Sumatra in 1823. Reprinted with an introduction by Nicholas Tarling (1971). London, Oxford University Press, pp. i-xviii, v-xxiii, 1-424 |
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Distribution - Records
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| The rhinoceros occurs. |
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| Reinwardt, C.G.C. 1823 Over de hoogte en verdere natuurlijke gesteldheid van eenige bergen in de Preanger Regentschappen. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 9: 1-37 |
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| Java, Preanger. The rhinoceros has a habit to push on to the end of the highest mountain, and its paths have often been useful to us in the dense forest. These paths even extended to the top of the Patoeha and across the difficult Goenoeng Goentoer, over the sharp lava along the crater. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The female has a longer and heavier head than the male, but is similar in other respects. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The skin of the Sumatran rhinoceros is much softer and more flexible than that of the Indian and is not corrugated into plates of mail. It has however some doublings or folds, particularly round the neck, shoulders and haunches, rather more distinct and defined than in Dr. Bell's drawing. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The female has a longer and heavier head than the male, but is similar in other respects. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| The skin of the Sumatran rhinoceros is much softer and more flexible than that of the Indian and is not corrugated into plates of mail. It has however some doublings or folds, particularly round the neck, shoulders and haunches, rather more distinct and defined than in Dr. Bell's drawing. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| They are not bold and one of the largest size has been seen to run away from a single wild dog. |
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| Raffles, T.S. 1822 Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, with additional notices illustrative of the natural history of these countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 239-274 |
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| Tennu. There is, however, another animal in the forests of Sumatra never yet noticed, which in size and character nearly resembles the rhinoceros, and what is said to have a single horn. This animal is distinguished by having a narrow whitish belt encircling the body, and is known to the native... |
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| Home, E. 1821 An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen. London Journal of Arts and Sciences 2: 466-468 |
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